I fermented two batches of wine from Sauvignon Blanc grapes in September using two different type of yeast, one dry and one semi dry. The dry batch still...

A previous post on stirring caused me to realize that I totally forgot to stir my last batch which is a Cab-Shiraz. I bottled it about 4 months ago. Now I am...

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Hi everyone....thanks in advance if anyone can assist me here. I used to help my grandfather make wine...he used to make some quality zinfandel.....so i...

I hear with a little jealousy how accessible bulk equipment seems to be in the US for home food and drink making. In England it seems that any larger...

This summer my wine making partner and I will be reconstructing our winery space for our home winery. I was thinking that before launching into such an...

I was given an old cast iron sausage/lard press from an elderly family member. It holds about 1 gallon. It has 2 different size press plates. A large one for...

well, next weekend will be step three, which is adding clearing agent and other "stuff" anyway, the instructions say to stir the wine vigorously. the wine...

The post on storing opened yeast reminded me that is is getting to the end of the season for ordering yeast. It is suggested that you NOT order yeast in the...

The question of how to make mulled wine comes up every now and then. I ran into this recipe in a book "Christmas in the Old West" by Sam Travers and thought...

If I use dried yeast from one of those hermetically sealed foil packets but don't use the entire packet, can that yeast be stored and used later? How should...

Here is a link to an interesting yeast PDF. http://biochemie.web.med.uni-muenchen.de/Yeast_Biol/03%20Yeast%20Metabolism.pdf Joe

But since making Rootbeer was mentioned: I've tried this guy's method and it works like a charm. The end product is very much like a ginger lemonade. Of...

Some years ago I was able to buy 'wheat sugar' from a brewing shop in islington. I was told at the time that this *by-passed* a few of the initial...

Hi I am looking to sterile bottle for the first time. I have one of the little vacuum bottle rigs and have got a filter cartridge and housing. Can anybody...

pretend you are me, you bought a winemaking kit, and a wine kit, have been pouring through instructions and pestering people on forums and such. you wander...

Looking ahead to bottling up 5-gallons of Shiraz I've been out in the garagecleaning up some bottles. I've been using vinegar to soften the labels and the...

And boy, does that yeast make a racket! anyway a wineshop owner I was talking to last friday said I should completly skip step 2 in the instructions. anyone...

I now have eighteen 375 mil and four 185ml bottles of Mojave Spirits (my brand) Pomegranate Wine. The final numbers going into the bottles a ...

without explaining so much as to make me an expert, can someone tell me the differences (if ANY) in sugar, granaulated sugar, and fine granulated sugar? got 5...

Honestly how many hydrometers have you broken? I started in 2002 and this is my 7th batch of wine. 2 - hydrometers down 1 - 6.5 gallon carboy (empty thank...

Hullo all, I had some very good advice and information from people in this group a couple of years ago, now I'd like to try for a little more. I am basically...

This wine is Zin and Cab . I had a problem with S02 (rotten egg smell) early on I used copper sulfite to get rid of the smell it worked. Now I have a off oder...

....but no-one seems to have asked this before...... do hydrometers 'age'? Can a hydrometer become unreliable simply because it is old? I have some, to say...

Just as an FYI, there is an antique bottle corker on EBay that is mislabeled as a CAPPER... I bought one simlar to this, that was also mislabeled, and mine...